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Wide Open Fairways: A Journey Across the Landscapes of Modern Golf
Contributor(s): Klein, Bradley S. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0803240376     ISBN-13: 9780803240377
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Golf
Dewey: 796.352
LCCN: 2013003773
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.44" W x 9.14" L (1.06 lbs) 216 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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In golf the playing field is also landscape, where nature and the shaping of it conspire to test athletic prowess. As golf courses move away from the "big business, pristine lawn" approach of recent times, Bradley S. Klein, a leading expert on golf course design and economics, finds much to contemplate, and much to report, in the way these wide-open spaces function as landscapes that inspire us, stimulate our senses, and reveal the special nature of particular places.
A meditation on what makes golf courses compelling landscapes, this is also a personal memoir that follows Klein's own unique journey across the golfing terrain, from the Bronx and Long Island suburbia to the American prairie and the Pacific Northwest. Whether discussing Robert Moses and Donald Trump and the making of New York City, or the role of golf in the development of the atomic bomb, or the relevance of Willa Cather to how the game has taken hold in the Nebraska Sandhills, Klein is always looking for the freedom and the meaning of golf's wide-open spaces. And as he searches, he offers a deeply informed and absorbing view of golf courses as cultural markers, linking the game to larger issues of land use, ecology, design, and imagination.
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